LETTERS: Tickets pay back fans for support

Mark Miller of Erlanger, with his tickets to the Cincinnati Bengals-San Diego Chargers playoff game. Other fans were able to watch from home, in part thanks to 10 local businesses that bought tickets to help prevent a TV blackout. The Enquirer/Patrick reddy

Cincinnati Bengals fans owe a warm thank you to the Cincinnati businesses that purchased tickets for Sunday's playoff game so many of us could watch from home.

These same businesses also need to remember that the fans they purchased tickets for are the very people who have made their companies what they are today and that support them on a daily basis here in Cincinnati. Paybacks are ... wonderful!

Teri Eyer, Anderson Township

Hats off to businesses that stepped up for game

Hats off to the 10 Cincinnati businesses listed in The Enquirer that stepped up to sell out the Bengals-Chargers game on Sunday.

I may have missed it, but surely the Bengals themselves, who have a high vested interest, also assisted monetarily. Correct?

Ron Fly Schutte, Fairfield

Bengals gave us a great season to remember

Thank you, Bengals!

Though I am disappointed by the loss, I am grateful to the entire Bengal organization - from Mike Brown to the ball boys - for providing us with a great season and a team in which we can take great pride.

Andy Dalton, you will have a long and successful career in which you will throw many more touchdowns than interceptions.

Giovani Bernard, you move the pile even though the pile is often stacked with men that outweigh you by 100 pounds or more.

A.J. Green, you so often play like Superman that we sometimes must be reminded that you are still just a man.

Coach Marvin Lewis, thank you for being a man of grace, integrity and humility and for being a great role model for the team you lead and this entire community.

Again, thanks for a great season!

Bo Weaver, Fort Thomas

Common Core foes use scare tactics

The article on Common Core standards for our schools was excellent ("Is Common Core helping our kids?" Jan. 6). According to our local teachers, it is working.

However, the John Birch Society disagrees. Remember the Birchers? They are the people who believed that fluoridated toothpaste would soften people's brains and turn them into Communists.

They seem to believe Common Core is a Communist plot, too.

They are back, raising money by selling an anti-Common Core DVD, scaring the daylights out of the ignorant.

Ted Smith, Villa Hills

Let's have an open and honest debate

Thank you for writing about Common Core. We welcome and appreciate the discussion.

How tragic that more Kentucky students will be sacrificed while we "watch graduation rates and college remediation rates over the next few years."

Since no Common Core opponent was quoted in the piece, I'd like to offer up our Facebook page, Kentuckians Against Common Core Standards, as a valuable resource for all Kentucky parents, teachers, administrators, and citizens to learn more about Common Core.

As community members, we all have an invested interest in the success of our students.

Our contacts inform us that parents, as well as teachers, have locally voiced opposition to Common Core, but that they are quickly shut down and quieted.

Additionally, Kentucky citizens and grassroots groups opposed to Common Core have shown up in force at legislative and state education meetings, exposing these sub-standards and asking questions of administrators that never get answered.

If Kentucky truly has the best interest of the student in mind, then let's have an open and honest debate, one that is not manipulated by the media or ignored by the Kentucky Department of Education and its commissioner.

Finally, "Building the Machine: A Film About the Common Core," a 70-minute documentary exposing Common Core, will be released in February.

Valerie O'Rear, on behalf of KACCS, Louisville

Why cancel school just because it's cold?

What kind of humans are we raising?

Do we really need to cancel school because it is cold?

Classes are held in a building, the last I checked.

Would we cancel a Bengals game if it was too cold?

Would we cancel the release of some new athletic shoe or some Black Friday sale where people stand in line outside in the name of consumerism?

I think they have school in Alaska and in Northern Canada on a regular basis.

We are not setting good examples for our young people about responsibilities and duties.

Put on a scarf and go where you are supposed to go.

Marley Belair, Kenwood ■

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LETTERS: Tickets pay back fans for support

Cincinnati Bengals fans owe a warm thank you to the Cincinnati businesses that purchased tickets for Sunday's playoff game so many of us could watch from home.